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face of the side of the seat, while the other NTTED STATES PATENT OTTICE.

CHARLES O. FIELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORNER-IRON FOR VEHICLE-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,223, dated September 18, 1894.

Application Elea May 24., 1894.

.To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. FIELD, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Seat Corner-Iron, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists of an angular body having a base and a top provided at itsouter edge with a downwardly extending iiange or iianges to engage the outer face of the seat side or back.

The invention consists of certain parts and details, and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both iigures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the i|nprovenient as applied and with part ot' the seat broken out; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear elevation of the improvement.

The improved seat corner iron is preferably made as a single casting formed with the angular body A adapted to fit into the corner formed by a side and the back of the seat, as is plainly illustrated in Fig. 1. On the lower end of the body A `is arranged a base flange B adapted` to lit on the top of the seat bottom and to be bolted or otherwise secured thereon :in a similar manner to that in which the body A is screwed or otherwise fastened to the side and back. y

On the upper end of the body A is formed the approximately horizontally-extending top lC engaging the top edges of the respective side and back, and from the outer edge of the said top O extends downward the flange D, one part or half of which engages the outer half engages the outer face of the back of the seat. The said liange D forms no angle at sain No. 512,287. (Nomad.)

the corner, but is curved so as to extend along the entire outer edge of the top C, as will be seen best in Fig. 2.

The flange D is formed with apertures for `the `passage of bolts or rivets E passmg through the respective side or back, and also engaging the corresponding side of the body 5o A, so as to firmly unite the body with the side or back of the seat and the iiange.

By the construction described, the several parts of the seat are firmly united, so as to preventspreading or cracking open of the joints between the sides, back and seat bottom. The body A being of angular form to t into the corner where the sides, the back and the bottom meet, the joints at the said corner are afforded a continuous support, 6o whereby Vthe seat is materially strengthened.

As the seat corner iron is made in a single piece, it can be cheaply manufactured and readily applied, so as to hold the several parts of the seat firmly together.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A seat corner iron comprising an angular body adapted to fit into the corner formed by 7o a side and the back of the seat,a base ange projecting inwardly from the bottom of the said body and adapted to rest on the bottom of the seat, and a top extending outwardly from the upper end of the body and provided 75 at its outer end with a downwardly extending iiange adapted for engagement with the outer faces of the seat back and one of the sides respectively and so curved `as to avoid the formation of an angle at the corner, substan- 8o tially as described.

CHARLES C. FIELD.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. Hos'rEE, (l. SEDGWICK. 

